Platform Events Scheduled with THE HOTHOUSE, May 4 - August 3

An exciting programme of platform events has been scheduled to run in conjunction with The Hothouse, Jamie Lloyd Productions' second show for Trafalgar Studios. The programme includes:

- A pre-show Q&A with award winning designer Soutra Gilmour

- Post show Q&As with the cast and director Jamie Lloyd

- A Pinter Workshop hosted by director Jamie Lloyd

- Two Pinter Shorts: Family Voices and Victoria Station performed by a cast including Joanna Lumley and AnDrew Scott

- Three panel discussions: the first with Michael Billington, Nick Payne and Jamie Lloyd followed by a second with Harold Pinter's wife, Lady Antonia Fraser - in conversation with Jamie Lloyd, and finally a panel event to discuss abuse of human rights

The full details for all platform events are listed below:

PRE SHOW Q&A with The Hothouse Designer Soutra Gilmour

Monday 3rd June 6pm

Designer Soutra Gilmour discusses her work as the designer of the Trafalgar Transformed season, and the challenges of transforming Studio 1 for a second time from Post Apocalyptic Scotland to a 1950's state-run institution.

Tickets: Free with any ticket to The Hothouse

POST SHOW Q&As with The Hothouse cast

Mondays: 20 May, 17, 24 June, 8 July 2013 at 9:30

Jamie Lloyd and the cast of The Hothouse will return to the stage at the end of the performance on each of these dates to answer any audience questions.

Tickets: Free with any ticket to The Hothouse

PLAYING PINTER: A Jamie Lloyd MASTERCLASS

17 June - 3.30pm-5pm with Jamie Lloyd

Jamie Lloyd hosts a 90-minute workshop on the work of Harold Pinter, one of the greatest British playwrights of our time.

Tickets: Free with any ticket to The Hothouse. £10 cost for a stand alone ticket

TRAF TAKEOVER: PINTER SHORTS

27, 29 June at 6pm, 28 June at 10.00pm

A chance to see two of Pinter's finest short plays, Family Voices and Victoria Station, as we take over the set of The Hothouse for three very special performances. Directed by Trafalgar Transformed Associate Director Edward Stambollouian.

Cast includes Joanna Lumley and AnDrew Scott.

Tickets: £5 with any ticket to The Hothouse*

*excludes £15 Monday tickets

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

5 June at 6pm

Pinteresque: Harold Pinter and British Theatre

Join Michael Billington (Guardian Theatre critic and writer of biography Harold Pinter), Nick Payne (writer of Constellations and winner of the Harold Pinter Award 2012 and Evening Standard Award for Best Play 2012) and Jamie Lloyd (director of The Hothouse) for a panel discussion on the work of Harold Pinter and the indisputable impact he made on British Theatre.

Tickets: Free. Must be reserved in advance.

Traf Talk: Lady Antonia Fraser in Conversation with Jamie Lloyd

12 June at 6pm

Lady Antonia Fraser joins The Hothouse director Jamie Lloyd for a conversation on her thirty-three year relationship with Harold Pinter. Lady Antonia offers a rare glimpse into the world they shared and her experience of being married to one of the greatest British playwrights of our times.

Tickets: Free with any ticket to The Hothouse

Rights and Freedoms: a panel discussion about abuse of human rights

2 July at 6pm

Join us for a stimulating conversation on the abuse of human rights. As news travels faster than ever before, is it acceptable that the abuse of human rights is still so widespread today? What can we do about it? Will it ever be overpowered? And what about the abuse in our own country - are the most vulnerable in our society being given the care and support they need?

Tickets: Free with any ticket to The Hothouse

The Hothouse is part of an exciting season of work for Trafalgar Transformed, a joint initiative between director Jamie Lloyd (Donmar'sPassion, Broadway's Cyrano de Bergerac, The National Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer, Royal Court's The Pride) and Howard Panter. It comes hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed and sold out Macbeth, starring James McAvoy. The Hothouse, with design by award-winning Soutra Gilmour, runs from 4 May to 3 August, with the press night on 9 May 2013.

The full cast for The Hothouse are Simon Russell Beale (Roote), John Heffernan (Lush), Harry Melling (Lamb), Clive Rowe (Tubb), John Simm (Gibbs) Christopher Timothy (Lobb) and Indira Varma (Miss Cutts).

It's Christmas Day in a nameless state-run institution where the inmates are subjected to a tirade of mindless cruelty. A maniacal and self-obsessed leader breeds a contagion of hierarchical savagery amongst his staff, who thrive on a noxious diet of delusion and deceit.

The day got off to a lousy start! A death and a birth. Absolutely bloody scandalous! Is it too much to ask - to keep the place clean?

Under a veil of devilish wit and subversive humour, Pinter's biting political commentary on the perils of unchecked power is as vital and pertinent today as when it was written in the 50's.

Jamie Lloyd Productions is a partnership with Jamie Lloyd and Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG).